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New York Times Thought Police Ask: Should Classic Rock Songs Be Toppled Like Confederate Statues?
Breitbart ^ | 4 Nov 2021 | DAVID NG

Posted on 11/04/2021 7:17:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Hide your classic rock LP’s. The thought police at the New York Times are coming for them.

The New York Times opinion section has run a column advocating for classic rock songs like Don McLean’s “American Pie” to be reconsidered and maybe even “toppled” like historic Confederate statues, arguing that reevaluating beloved songs will help create a world that is “inclusive and more just.”

Other rock singers ripe for cancellation include Eric Clapton, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and even Elvis Presley.

Jennifer Finney Boylan, who is a male-to-female transgender, laid out the case in the op-ed titled “Should Classic Rock Songs Be Toppled Like Confederate Statues?”

“As we take another look at the sins of our historical figures, we’ve also had to take a hard look at our more immediate past and present, including the behavior of the creators of pop culture,” Boylan wrote. “That reassessment extends now to the people who wrote some of our best-loved songs.”

Chief among the candidates for cancellation is “American Pie,” the 1971 classic song by Don McLean. Boylan cited past allegations of domestic violence made against McLean as justification for the song’s cancellation.

“I want to live in a world where I can be moved by art and music and literature without having to come up with elaborate apologies for that work or for its creators,” the columnist wrote.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 1984; americanpie; breitbart; censorship; classicrock; davidng; donmclean; inclusive; music; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; orwell; rock; ropetreejenn; someassemblyrequired; thoughtpolice
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The author...

That's a man, baby!

101 posted on 11/05/2021 6:43:20 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We are about at the end of this phase, I imagine.


102 posted on 11/05/2021 6:44:29 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good. Keep it up.

Repudiation of your sick, lefty agenda is exactly how Republicans were voted into office in the recent election.

This will help in the lead-up to the 2022 mid-terms.


103 posted on 11/05/2021 6:47:35 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Rummyfan
In that world there would be no art, literature, or music.

That is the world that the globalists desire for their slaves. A world without beauty or ideas or inspiration. The uplifting, encouraging music of a republican like Beethoven is squarely in their sights, not just "good ol' boys drinking whiskey and rye."

104 posted on 11/05/2021 6:48:06 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Commie’s and their toadies in the press suck... now, then, and forever.


105 posted on 11/05/2021 6:50:04 AM PDT by GOPJ (If liberty means anything ...it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. Orwell)
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To: LibertyWoman

We are. Look at all the historical statues they’ve torn down. Next come the Churches and Synagogues, then the libraries etc etc etc.


106 posted on 11/05/2021 6:52:24 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: no one in particular
106 post and no one posted "The Day the Music Died"???

We're slipping, people.

107 posted on 11/05/2021 8:46:10 AM PDT by null and void (The Washington DC Swamp, Where Bottom Feeders Are Apex Predators!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Elvis Presley’s “You Ain’t Nothing but a Hound Dog” should be banned—it insults dogs.


108 posted on 11/05/2021 9:08:30 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: frank ballenger
There was a WKRP episode where Johnny Fever and the rest had to have song playlists gone over by a minister to cut down on vulgarity and immorality so sponsors would be happy.

That was the premise of the very beautiful Italian-language movie Cinema Paradiso (set in WW2 immediate-postwar era), where a boy who would grow up to be a famous movie director assisted the the small town's only movie projectionist. The town's priest would instruct the projectionist where to cut out the kissing scenes. I think the film, with its gorgeous music by Ennio Morricone, may be available with subtitles.

109 posted on 11/05/2021 9:48:49 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude. --Frederick Douglass)
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To: precisionshootist
Maybe it's time we make Communism illegal?

The other best president of my lifetime, Dwight Eisenhower, already did that, and it helped for a long time:

Communist Control Act of 1954

It has been chipped away at, but I'm not sure it has ever been completely overturned by law, even if it has been ignored in practice.

110 posted on 11/05/2021 9:55:14 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude. --Frederick Douglass)
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To: FreedomPoster

I don’t care what some puke dude in a dress has to say about much of anything


How about a puke dude in a four-star admiral’s dress?


111 posted on 11/05/2021 10:11:03 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: goodnesswins

I’ve seen those magazine ads for small devices to transfer the digital content from dozens of cds you own and store them on the device.

Don’t know anyone who has one to inform me better.

My luck, the device would later say “No content in folders.”

Full disclosure: I am a Luddite (as I type this on FR). Do not own a cell phone (grounds for locking me up these days).
Have a minute Tracphone (formerly known as ghetto phones until millions of Obamaphones with top smartphone premium annual plans went out to the cities).


112 posted on 11/05/2021 3:50:18 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Senate Commission to convene to find out who put the bomp in the “bomp-bom-bomp-bom-bomp”


113 posted on 11/05/2021 9:49:02 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Someone tell them eating was invented by rapists so they have no choice but to starve themselves.


114 posted on 11/06/2021 12:43:31 AM PDT by Impy ("We didn't steal the election, we swear!!!" - Sincerely, The Election Thieves )
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